This season's big thing in booze? Pop-up cocktail bars

All over the country, holiday-themed cocktail bars are popping up, but be quick. By New Year's, they'll be gone.

Miracle, a franchise of pop-up holiday cocktail bars, serves holiday-themed cocktails through the end of the year.
(Photo: Miracle on 9th Street/Instagram)

Now you see it. Now you don't.

That's how it is for pop-up stores, which fill a space for a short time and then pack up and close for good or move to another location. This holiday's biggest pop-up trend is the pop-up cocktail bar, complete with winter themed drinks. Many of them have a charitable component, making doing good as easy as drinking something good.

The regular hotel bar inside NYC's NYLO hotel on the Upper West Side is popping up as a Shakespearian/holiday themed bar with drinks like Puck's Shadow and the Nymph's Nectar made with gin, passionfruit, grapefruit and lime. The dream ends on Jan. 1 and when hotel guests wake up on Jan. 2, the hotel bar will go back to being just a hotel bar.

This little Miracle is part of the franchise of Miracle pop-up cocktail holiday bars with locations in Paris, Athens, New York City, Atlanta, Seattle, and of course Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Some of the proceeds from Miracle go to charity, according to CBS Local. Festive drink's like this Snowball Old Fashioned made with bourbon, Becherovka, spiced syrup and Angostura bitters are accompanied by simple foods like bologna sandwiches and fries. The pop-up holiday cocktail bar closes New Year's Eve.

Warmer weather is what patrons of Sippin' Santa's Surf Shop in the East Village in New York City want for the holidays. Through Dec. 24, drinks like Hawaiian Milk Punch made with bourbon set a tropical mood. You can even watch beach movies from the '60s.

And some pop-ups go the more traditional route. The pop-up Christmas Village at City Hall in Philadelphia features authentic European food, ornaments and arts & crafts from all over the world. This temporary village also serves mulled wines from the local Chaddsford Winery served in Christmas Village collectors mugs. The Christmas Village runs through Dec. 24.